They play fetch!?!

This video wowed me! This has me looking for a tiny ball...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORv4UvQgB0

( turn your sound off the song sucks)

Holy WOW! All mine do it stalk me...the evil lil things :P

That was cute. :aww:

It is certainly possible to work with them like that. I've seen videos of people tossing them around and playing with them. However, it takes dedicated breeding efforts like those in europe have done to breed for tamer ASF's.

Also, helps that those two are males. Male rats are sooo loveable. Even my males are sweet hearts and I'm sure would be just as playful had I taken the time to socialize them with me.

thats awesome!!! ((claps)) :rolleye2:

Yep they'll fetch the tip of your finger right after they slice it off with one swift little rat ninja move! :rofl:

That was an amazing video though. :)

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Yep they'll fetch the tip of your finger right after they slice it off with one swift little rat ninja move! :rofl:

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LOL!!

It was a great video. Thanks for sharing!

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Yep they'll fetch the tip of your finger right after they slice it off with one swift little rat ninja move! :rofl:

That was an amazing video though. :)

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LOL!

I don't mess with mine cool vid though. Rat bites hurt

brave little soul ...... my asf would kill me if i even tried to "play" with them

hi!
thanks for posting my video here, cause that's why i found your site! it's hard to find german speaking sites about asfs (i´m from austria and living in berlin), so i'm really glad i found you!

susi (the fetching rat) is my most aggressive female, the other one on the video (grey-eared) is a tame male. susi kills anything that moves before even noticing what it was (gess that's why she likes balls so much :oops:), unfortunately she fetched another females lip tonight:O, doesn't look good...
http://up.picr.de/1264186.jpg
...but this one was lucky, a few weeks ago susi killed another female within a few seconds. she's quite heavy (over 120g although she's not fat) compared to my other femals, which come from a different line (smaller and more likely to flee than to bite).
right now i'm resocializing her to the group again, which btw. only works in a shower cabin full of dog hair (susi freezes for fear then and doesn't fight).
http://up.picr.de/1264332.jpg

btw i don't keep ball-pythons, just a few corns. my asfs are more pets, i mainly keep (and train! :D) mice...

Welcome to BPNet. We have a number of colubrid keepers and breeders here. Your work with the ASF's (which I keep as feeders) is amazing.

So what's up with the dog hair? Does the scent of what they perceive as a predator distract that female from attacking others? I've noticed in watching our ASF's colonies that there seems to be a definite pecking order in the enclosure with a ranking female at the head of it. If she's out of sorts, everyone hides fast even the poor male.